
The Far Corner
Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature
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Hardcover (4/1/2009)
Description
Both lyrical and informative, these essays are diverse in focus, various in length, and inventive in form -- one is constructed as a journal, two as linear montages. By turns playful, awed, cantankerous, and tender in tone, they deliver themselves in a style of high informality, welcoming readers to join the author as he journeys through some of the puzzlements, sadnesses, and small glories of living. This collection extends John Daniel's earlier work, The Trail Home, in the personal essay form.
Praise For The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature…
Praise for John Daniel
"The Far Corner makes such good company because the writing is patient with what it wants to discuss. It thinks, recognizes nuance and includes it rather than dismissing it. The result is a view (of rivers, logging, Wallace Stegner, nonfiction prose) that’s layered rather than simplistic and accurate rather than glib. John Daniel’s essays sound a voice that wants to tell the truth and that finds outand makes clearhow complicated and mysterious an effort this can be." Lex Runciman, Professor of English, Linfield College
As beautifully wrought as it is truthful, Rogue River Journal is a Walden for our time.” Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards Committee
John Daniel has quietly established himself over the past decade as one of the premier writers on the West Coast.” The Bloomsbury Review
John Daniel loves wilderness of all kinds, and gets out into it every chance, but it is more than scenery he is after. He has a streak of mysticism, some generalized religious sense, that is stimulated by the natural world, by physical effort, as in climbing, and by participation in the sounds and smells and seasons of nature . . . his essays will win him devoted readers.” Wallace Stegner
Daniel’s writing is known for its clarity.” The Oregonian
Counterpoint LLC, 9781582435848, 205pp.
Publication Date: April 13, 2010